A digital menu for cafes that works the counter.
tamr is a digital menu for cafes with an AI waiter built in. Guests scan the QR menu, ask what milks you carry or what's in the banana bread, and get an answer from your real menu, so the counter keeps moving when it's two of you at rush.
The counter, 8:40am
Guest asked
"Do you have oat milk? And is the carrot cake nut-free?"
AI waiter
Oat milk, yes, in any drink. The carrot cake has walnuts, but the banana bread and the lemon loaf are both nut-free.
How it works
The questions are constant.
The answers don't need you.
Put your menu in
Drinks, pastries, ingredients and prices. tamr reads it, you approve every line. About 20 minutes, once.
Print the QR
On tables, at the counter, on the pastry case, in the window. Guests scan in the queue, no app and no account.
Guests ask, the AI waiter answers
"Is there decaf?" "Which pastries are nut-free?" It answers from your real menu, in the guest's language, while your baristas keep pouring.
You see the demand
Every question is counted. When 40 people a week ask for a gluten-free pastry you don't carry, you find out from the dashboard, not from lost sales.
Honest by design
Answers from your menu,
not the internet.
The AI waiter only knows what you published: your drinks, your bakes, the ingredients you approved. It doesn't guess at a recipe, and it doesn't invent a special you never put on.
Nut and allergen questions get the answer a good barista would give: specific, from the menu, with a nudge to check at the counter when the allergy is serious. How tamr handles allergens →
And because guests ask the menu instead of your staff, the same five questions stop landing on whoever is closest to the till.
What you learn
The demand you can't hear
from behind the till.
31%
of drink questions were milk swaps
1 in 5
asked about decaf after 4pm
48
asked for a gluten-free bake that wasn't there
A sample week at one cafe. Your own numbers build up in the dashboard as guests ask, so the next menu change is a decision, not a hunch.
Fair questions
What cafe owners ask us.
Does tamr work for counter service?
Yes, it was practically built for it. Put the QR on the counter, the pastry case or the window as well as on tables. Guests get their answers before they order, and your baristas never break rhythm to recite the milk list.
Can guests use it while they're queuing?
That's the point. The menu opens in the phone's browser straight from the QR, no app and no sign-up. A guest three spots back can settle the oat milk and nut-free questions before reaching the till, which is exactly when the answer saves you time.
What does it cost to get started?
The first month is free, no card. Setup takes about 20 minutes: upload your menu, approve what tamr read, print the QR. If it hasn't earned its spot on the counter by the end of the month, walk away.
Deeper dive: How to cut repetitive menu questions →
Keep the line moving.
See it on your own menu. Live in about 20 minutes, first month free, no card.